ZERUAH.The mother of Jeroboam (1Ki_11:26; 1Ki_12:24 b).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Mother of Jeroboam (1Ki_12:24). Septuagint adds she was a harlot, and names her Sarira.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zeru'ah. (full breasted). The mother of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 1Ki_11:26. (B.C. 973).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zḗ-rōō?a (צרוּעה, cerū‛āh, perhaps ?leprous?): Mother of King Jeroboam I (1Ki_11:26), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1Ki_11:26, but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of 1Ki_12:24 reads (1Ki_12:24): ?And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, a servant of Solomon, and his name was Jeroboam, and the name of his mother was Sareisa (Septuagint has Sareisa), a harlot.? See ZARETHAN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Zeru?ah (leprous), the widowed mother of Jeroboam (1Ki_11:26).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
(Heb. Tseruah'. צְרוּעָה, smitten with leporosy [Gesen.] or full-breasted [Fürst]; Sept. Σαρουά Vulg. Sarua), the widowed mother of Jeroboam the son of Nebat (1Ki_11:26). B.C. 973. In the additional narrative of the Sept. inserted after 1Ki_12:24, she is called Sarira (a corruption of Zereda, Jeroboam's native place), and is said to have been a harlot.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.